WORK WITH COURSERAAndrew also co-founded Coursera which offers online courses from top universities for free. With over 80 university, other partners and nearly 400 courses, Coursera is currently the largest MOOC (Massive Open Online Courses) platform in the world. Ng's goal is to connect everyone to a great education for free.

ABOUT

ANDREW NG

Andrew Ng is an Associate Professor at Stanford; Chief Scientist of Baidu; and Chairman and Co-Founder of Coursera. In 2011 he led the development of Stanford University’s main MOOC (Massive Open Online Courses) platform and also taught an online Machine Learning class that was offered to over 100,000 students, leading to the founding of Coursera.

RECENT WORK

Deep Learning with COTS HPC Systems

Deep Learning and Unsupervised Feature Learning

Ng’s Stanford research group focuses on deep learning, which builds very large neural networks to learn from labeled and unlabeled data. Recently, a Stanford team (led by Adam Coates) built the world’s largest deep learning system with over 10 billion learnable parameters trained via back propagation using inexpensive GPU hardware. This work was presented in ICML 2013.